What is "puffy"

Usage examples of "puffy".

One would have thought it impossible for a man to stretch himself more than Timokhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so Kutuzov, who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his scarred and puffy face.

Six in all, they were garbed in puffy suits of asbestos, with grimy faces glaring through the fronts of their helmets.

It was one of those glorious, sundrenched daysbright blue sky with a few puffy little white clouds that looked like playful sheepthat Eddoes was positive one could find only in the Caribbean.

I boarded the plane carrying several frying thermometers, which set off the metal detector, a few extra pairs of tongs, and a bag of chapati flour for making puffy pooris.

Puffy sleeves and a skirt of blue satin accented with ivory lace godets finished the dress.

On this occasion, Slick wore a genuine smile, which Lippy tried to duplicate with a puffy leer.

Thick-lipped, rough of countenance, with glaring eyes beneath puffy brows, Marty Lunk bore the physiognomy of a vicious killer.

In all animals sick with nagana they found these finned beasts, in the blood they were, and in the fluid of their puffy eyelids, and in the strange yellowish jelly that replaced the fat under their skins.

The skin around the wrist was also blue and puffy, and on the underside of the forearm there appeared to be the aftermath of a petechial rash: at some point the boy had begun to hemorrhage into his skin.

Kharadmon stopped, wrung out a vehement breath, and shook a damp hank of cinnamon hair from the puffy sills of his eyes.

Though young, he had a dissolute look, the puffy eyes and ruddy cheeks of a barroom brawler who would be content to spend his life drinking and fighting, both of which he no doubt did well.

The crumpled face collapsed even further while tears sprang into what Bridie now saw were red-rimmed and puffy eyes.

Her face was puffy fat in contrast to her lean frame, so that she presented the distinctly odd appearance of a mismated body and head.

He got it as, blinking in the light, Montero reared up in bed, his face puffy with sleep.

From the Least Common Multiple up to the Greatest Common Divisor, from the thin, poker-like Quotient with the fierce white moustache to the enormous, puffy Multiplicand, Sara thought they were the most pompous lot she had ever seen.